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Mousehole Christmas Lights

The Mousehole Lights switch on signals the start of the start of Christmas. Fabulously festive the local tradition is one worth donning your woolly hat and thermals and heading down to the cute-as-a-button harbour. The big switch on this year is the 12th December at 730pm; and you really don’t want to miss it!

Switch on is 7.30pm, 12th December. The lights will then be on each evening between 5pm and 11pm from Sunday 13th December 2015 until Saturday 2nd January 2016 (with the exception of 19th Dec, when the lights will be dimmed between 8-9pm).

Mousehole is a famous for a few things, but the two things that are quintessentially ‘Mowzel’ are the Mousehole Cat and the Christmas lights.

No self-respecting visitor to the harbourside village should potter round without having read the beautiful and magical tale; The Mousehole Cat by Antonia Barber. Keep a look out for the real Mousehole Cat whenever you are there…

The lights however are easier to spot. Organised by the village, monies are raised throughout the year so that the annual spectacular raises the Christmas bar time and time again. The lights that illuminate the harbour are utterly magical and truly not to be missed.

Let the festivities commence as the Christmas lights twinkle over the boats bobbing in the harbour and the open-air carol singing begins.

The lights will then be on each evening between 5pm and 11pm from Sunday 13th December 2015 until Saturday 2nd January 2016 (with the exception of 19th Dec, when the lights will be dimmed between 8-9pm).

Bring flasks of hot choc - stuffed with marshmallows - down to the harbour front and kickstart your countdown to Christmas.